I must say I'm surprised that you were so harsh on "Van Helsing", and yet so lenient to "Troy".
"Van Helsing" is a Stephen Sommers film, which meant it was automatically going to be a dumb B movie with a cavalier attitude to the source material. (Fair enough, as the Universal horror movies of the 1930s/40s were absolutely shocking at maintaining any sort of consistency and were fairly low in intelligence.) It appears to be exactly what it set out to be.
"Troy" had a prestigious director and trampled all over the source material, which was much more worthy of respect in the first place. There's no way I could respect this movie.
Still, if a movie like "Van Helsing" fails to entertain you then there's not much point to it. I respect your opinion on this type of movie, but I've read enough positive responses to the movie from people whose opinions I also respect that I'll seek it out rather than avoid it. Hopefully I'll like it more than you did :)
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Date: 2004-05-18 07:00 pm (UTC)"Van Helsing" is a Stephen Sommers film, which meant it was automatically going to be a dumb B movie with a cavalier attitude to the source material. (Fair enough, as the Universal horror movies of the 1930s/40s were absolutely shocking at maintaining any sort of consistency and were fairly low in intelligence.) It appears to be exactly what it set out to be.
"Troy" had a prestigious director and trampled all over the source material, which was much more worthy of respect in the first place. There's no way I could respect this movie.
Still, if a movie like "Van Helsing" fails to entertain you then there's not much point to it. I respect your opinion on this type of movie, but I've read enough positive responses to the movie from people whose opinions I also respect that I'll seek it out rather than avoid it. Hopefully I'll like it more than you did :)